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Sunday, August 05, 2007

That's seven

As of yesterday I have now been hit by cars on seven occasions. Some idiot in Palm Beach passed too close and clipped my handlebars while I was riding home from a 200k Randonee earlier. I'm not sure whether it was intentional or not, and I'm not particularly concerned as the police wouldn't do anything about it either way. Myself and my bike were totally unharmed in the exchange, in fact I didn't even stop pedalling. The car may have been scratched, but I don't care enough about that to pay much attention to it.

Just over a week ago I said that riding in central London was a danger because it might erode my cynicism and leave me vulnerable to the idiots when I returned to the Gold Coast, and so it proved. Just in case anyone wonders whether seven is a lucky number, I also got two more (unrelated) flat tyres yesterday -- taking my 2007 tally to 20.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chris are you saying they, the police, did nothing or you didn't bother to report it as they would do nothing even if you did?

And to the flats...
As a comparison I think the number of flats you have is representative of the number of km you ride, I've only managed 2 flats since last December to your 20 and I think my 5000km (avg:150km/week) would be a tiny cumulative compared to your distance over that same 31 weeks.

8:55 pm  
Blogger Chris L said...

Basically I didn't bother to report it because when I've reported similar incidents in the past, they've been totally disinterested. I figured this time I'd just save myself the time and the hassle -- and they wonder why Queensland police are the lowest paid in the country. In my workplace most of them wouldn't have a job at all.

As far as the flats are concerned, I seem to be having an inordinately high number of them this year. I once went 15,773km without any! That said, the amount of broken glass on the roads around here seems to be continually increasing. At least I'm getting better at changing them!

1:28 pm  

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